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2006-07-18 Home Front: WoT

Limbaugh: It's Been World War III Since 9/11...

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Posted by Sholuth Flotch4186 2006-07-18 03:39|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Rantburg bloggers have been talking about WWW III for sometime. Newt Gingrich used the phrase yesterday. Hopefully, the rest of the country will wake up to the danger of the islamofacists.

Posted by JohnQC 2006-07-18 08:36|| 2006-07-18 08:36|| Front Page Top

#2 Al-Jazeera began cheer-leading Taliban/al-Qaeda the second the Afghan liberation began. Muslims in general, and Arabs in particular have treated post 9-11 as final-jihad. I would have banned CAIR, ISNA, ICNA and the AMC as terrorist organizations the second they started to agitate against any and all US response to the 9-11 terrorism. Since that disgusting date, Christians and Jews have been almost cleared out of Muslim majority states, while we have been allowing massive Muslim immigration. It is highly likely that the next generation will deny pensions to us, given the fact that we shifted an unnecessary danger onto the backs of our children. We are in World War 3; let's stop fighting ourselves and start killing the enemy.

Posted by Anginens Threreng8133 2006-07-18 08:53|| 2006-07-18 08:53|| Front Page Top

#3 WWIV. The quesxtion is whether it's more like WWI & WWII or WWIII (Communism).

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-07-18 09:12|| 2006-07-18 09:12|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm with NS on this one. We're in WWIV (with WWIII being the Cold War). And, I believe we all know the answer to the question he poses. If allowed, the jihadis will definitely make this an all-out clash of civilizations (actually, I refuse to call it that because 1 side is NOT "civilized") rush to the bottom. I'd also add that this war has been "hot" (in U.S. terms) since 1979 in Iran, we just haven't recognized it's a war until we were hit hard on 9/11.

Posted by BA 2006-07-18 09:43|| 2006-07-18 09:43|| Front Page Top

#5 It will have to be more like the Roman conquests.

Posted by ed 2006-07-18 09:48|| 2006-07-18 09:48|| Front Page Top

#6 All I know is that on 9/11 i started hearing the Andrews Sisters in my head.
And I often wonder what's wrong with people who don't get it.

Posted by J. D. Lux 2006-07-18 09:58|| 2006-07-18 09:58|| Front Page Top

#7 James Woolsey coined this war nearly four years ago as W.W. IV; the Cold War was W.W. III:

World War IV
By R. James Woolsey
FrontPageMagazine.com | November 22, 2002

Posted by Lancasters Over Dresden 2006-07-18 10:12|| http://www.michaelcalderonscall.com/HomePage.asp]">[http://www.michaelcalderonscall.com/HomePage.asp] 2006-07-18 10:12|| Front Page Top

#8 As an American it is easy for me to slide into thinking WWII started on December 7, 1941, but the conflict had been going on some years before that.

With that in mind I'll say that WWIV has been going on since AT LEAST the seizing of the Iranian Embassy in 1979. Israel's been at war with them since their inception.

(And Biblically speaking, for thousands of years going back to Jacob and Esau.)

Posted by eLarson 2006-07-18 10:25|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2006-07-18 10:25|| Front Page Top

#9 I wonder what the world would be like if Nixon had actually ordered Arafat exterminated?

Posted by Whereth Flomoque5693 2006-07-18 11:36|| 2006-07-18 11:36|| Front Page Top

#10 WF,

I believe you got your history wrong. When Ariel Sharon (tank commander) had Arafat in his sights in the verge of taking over Beruit, President Reagan stopped him. But, there is a caveat to President Reagan stopping Sharon, history likes to blame Reagan but the truth of the matter is that it was Colin Powell, James Baker, and Brent Scowcoft that strongly twisted Reagan's arm. President Reagan regretted that decision til his dying day.

Limbaugh is wrong. It's been World War III since 1979. Admitting the truth will hurt the egos so many of the former U.S. policy makers. These former government officials likes tour around the TV talk circuit, explaining away how brilliant they are, but people like me who don't forget the disasterous mistakes they have made 30-40 years ago, are not the least bit fooled.

Posted by Poison Reverse 2006-07-18 13:07|| 2006-07-18 13:07|| Front Page Top

#11 Interesting bit of History; I thought it was us froggies who saved arafat's bacon in Beirut.

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-07-18 13:15|| 2006-07-18 13:15|| Front Page Top

#12 Who do you think was giving the script to Powell, Baker and Scowcroft?

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-07-18 13:55|| 2006-07-18 13:55|| Front Page Top

#13 NS,

The answer is simple. Our friends: "The Saudi's."

Don't forget that Arafat is a Egyptian terrorist that was kicked out of Egypt and Jordan. This is how he ended up in Beruit in the first place.

Just like the Paleo's, the Arab world knew that Arafat was a trouble maker so the Saudi's threw him and the ~~rotten scum~~ Paleo's, to the Jews. If you fast forward time, to today, you are witnessing with your very eyes, the failure of decades past.

Posted by Poison Reverse 2006-07-18 14:07|| 2006-07-18 14:07|| Front Page Top

#14 WORLD WAR 3 !

Just because some asshole changed the Cold War name which we who lived through all 40 years of it and called it The Cold War.
Besides which my genius friends, the Cold War was not fought all over the world.
Finally, I'll bet the jerk who wants WW3 to be the Cold War is a liberal, and therefore illegitimate as a war namer.

Posted by wxjames 2006-07-18 14:26|| 2006-07-18 14:26|| Front Page Top

#15 Still Call it The Great War?

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-07-18 14:28|| 2006-07-18 14:28|| Front Page Top

#16 Besides which my genius friends, the Cold War was not fought all over the world.

The "Cold War" was a war against communist expansionism fought by the USSR and Red China against the US and it's allies by various proxies.

The Korean Conflict, Vietnam, Malaysian insurgency, Cuban missile crisis, Nigaragua, Grenada, etc, etc were battles in that war. Looks pretty world-wide to me, and still simmering in a few places. I'd say it would qualify as WWIII.

Posted by Steve">Steve 2006-07-18 14:58|| 2006-07-18 14:58|| Front Page Top

#17 Surely the Soviets and the Red Chinese thought of the Cold War as a world-wide fight over which philosophy would win (Totalitarian "Communism" or Individual-rights Classic Western Liberalism), with proxy hot wars fought over the issue in various third world countries while the suborned or seduced fought for US/European hearts and minds. Should we not believe those who set themselves to fight against us, and name it the World War they believed it to be, hence the 3rd of that type.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-07-18 16:17|| 2006-07-18 16:17|| Front Page Top

#18 I vote for:

The War to End All Wars Until The Next War

Posted by Dreadnought 2006-07-18 16:19|| 2006-07-18 16:19|| Front Page Top

#19 WWIV it is then.
And started in 1979 with he Islamic Revolution in Iran.
Just so we know what to tell the kids.

Posted by J. D. Lux 2006-07-18 16:30|| 2006-07-18 16:30|| Front Page Top

#20 WW0 since it's been been Muslims against the rest of the World since Islam's inception.

Posted by gromgoru 2006-07-18 19:00|| 2006-07-18 19:00|| Front Page Top

#21 LOL, gromgoru.

Posted by flyover 2006-07-18 19:50|| 2006-07-18 19:50|| Front Page Top

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